Exaggerated auditory startle responses in multiple system atrophy: A comparative study of parkinson and cerebellar subtypes

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 541-547

  Kofler, Markus ^a   Müller, Jörg ^b   Seppi, Klaus ^b   Wenning, Gregor K ^b  

^a Hospital Hochzirl   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Auditory startle reaction; Brainstem reflex; MSA C; MSA P; Multiple system atrophy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; OLIVOPONTOCEREBELLAR ATROPHY; ORBICULARIS ORIS MUSCLE; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME; SOLEUS MUSCLE; STARTLE REFLEX; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; THENAR; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

EID: 0037687971     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(02)00390-5     Document Type: Article

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